Page content Home Indonesia Our Team Indonesia Our Team Norimasa Shimomura Mr. Norimasa Shimomura has started as UNDP Resident Representative in Indonesia on 1 October 2020. He has more than 25 years of experience at the United Nations, promoting sustainable human development in many countries. Prior to his current assignment, he served as the United Nations Resident Coordinator for Kazakhstan in 2015-2020 and UNDP Resident Representative for Kazakhstan until December 2018 when the global UN reform separated the positions of UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative. Earlier, he spearheaded development initiatives as UNDP Resident Representative a.i. in Montenegro, UNDP Country Director in Tajikistan and Albania, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in the current Republic of North Macedonia, and acting UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Georgia. He also served as Program Manager of Western Balkans cluster at UNDP headquarters Regional Bureau for Europe & CIS, and Special Assistant to the Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery. Prior to that, he was Economic Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations serving as delegate for the GA Second Committee, ECOSOC and its subsidiary committees, and UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board. He started his career as UNDP programme officer in Turkmenistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He holds Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in the City of New York, and B.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. Read More Ms. Sujala Pant Ms. Sujala Pant joined the UNDP Indonesia team in September 2022 as Deputy Resident Representative. She has nearly 20 years of experience working on sustainable development, governance and climate finance across different countries and regions. Prior to joining the Indonesia Country Office, Ms. Pant was the Chief Technical Advisor of a large multi-partner regional project that worked on the interface of climate-change, SDGs, and crisis in the Arab States. Before that, she worked at the Green Climate Fund, supporting countries in the eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia to access climate finance more effectively. She has extensive experiences across UNDP with roles ranging from roles such as Governance and Climate Finance Advisor, to her first UNDP assignment as Special Assistant to the Governance Director in 2008, when she joined UNDP under the LEAD programme. Ms. Pant also brings diverse experiences from country level work from her tenure with the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) in Bhutan and Nepal where she supported national and sub-national government stakeholders on policies and initiatives related to local governance. Ms. Pant has a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, UK and a Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences) from Monash University, Australia. Read More